Reviews: North, Claire

Touch —
Claire North

When
2015’s Touch
begins, things are not going well for protagonist Kepler, who has
just been shot twice by a complete stranger. Things are worse for
Kepler’s host, Josephine Cebula, She is trapped in her own dying
body; Kepler can escape into any living body within arm’s reach.

Kepler
has no idea why the stranger attacked. The body-hopper does know
that, for some reason, killing Josephine appeared to be as or more
important than killing Kepler. Possessing the killer is easy enough, which gives Kepler the killer’s effects to rummage through for clues but that
turns out to be just the first and least step on the way to finding
Kepler’s real enemy.